Hopes for an ELP reunion are all-but gone after Greg Lake and Carl Palmer both dismissed the suggestion.

But the keyboardist’s comments might be the final word. Speaking ahead of a Moogfest appearance alongside synth pioneer Robert Moog, Emerson tells the Citizen-Times: “I’ve reached my 70th year. This might be the last year that I’ll actually perform in public.”

ELP last played together at Classic Rock’s High Voltage Festival in 2010. Drummer Palmer recently said of the show: “it wasn’t the greatest we’ve done but the crowd seemed to like it. I think it was good that we said goodbye.”

Bassist Lake last year said the chemistry between the three wasn’t there any more, reflecting: “It’s very strange, but there’s something about ELP that doesn’t work. It used to work, but it doesn’t now.”

Emerson’s most recent studio work was symphonic album Three Fates, released in 2012. He described it as his “most important since the ELP days.”

To enforce inequality a police state has been installed using the excuse of terrorism. Sadly the police state without a leash are the terrorist. We see it all over the globe. The Dulles brothers Book Saloon is scheduled May 10 they did a lot to create eternal war.

natural disasters are a lot better than the man-made ones.
This is tornado alley! It happens here. And is seasonally appropriate. Pl,us, people get together and help each other out, for awhile.
Sometimes communities rise frm the ashes and it’s great.
Sometimes they don’t, but the ppl move on.

Now if we start having tornadoes in Dec or January, there will be a lot more pointing at fingers at the causers. Hope we can get there before it gets to that.

Hi BB. I wonder if the Dulles book will go forward this time.:) So curious that it got sidelined. Thanks for the heads up.

I’m sorry to see the police state grow and grow. I just try to keep a low profile and listen for some whisper of how the populace might not only protect itself but also push back. Without getting mowed down in the streets, of course.

Hi BB. I wonder if the Dulles book will go forward this time.:) So curious that it got sidelined. Thanks for the heads up.

I’m sorry to see the police state grow and grow. I just try to keep a low profile and listen for some whisper of how the populace might not only protect itself but also push back. Without getting mowed down in the streets, of course.

Crap. every time the Dulles Brothers get mentioned, the site seems to have a seizure. What gives????

Securities and Exchange Commissioner Kara Stein on Monday denounced the regulator’s decision to continue providing special benefits to a big bank after its conviction for manipulating interest rates.

The SEC spared Royal Bank of Scotland Group from losing its regulatory status as a well-known seasoned issuer on Friday. The bank was criminally convicted earlier this year for manipulating the Libor benchmark interest rate. The bank’s crimes, Stein said Monday in a dissent to the SEC decision, harmed individuals, businesses and governments worldwide…

the banks are pleading ‘you can’t take blood from a turnip’ and gov’s are paying them to stay afloat.
Saw chrishayes interview Piketty who reminded that after WWII, Germany and Japan were offered western democracy AND progressive taxation, up to 90% as condition for entrance into the club…
Now, well, you know

There is a bright line between the current phase which is to draft a consent decree and the possible criminal charges that may be coming. They don’t talk about the criminal charges of course. But the level of frustration in the community about the ongoing killings in addition to the lack of accountability for past acts is very high. This hearing was held in a sector of the city that is subject to profiling of every kind, from racial to economic. So this community was on edge. Not patient. The US Atty and the DOJ people did not want to host a “forum.” They wanted a quiet assembly of people who would comply with the planned format. The people were not very thrilled, but we did eventually do their bidding in terms of format.

We had another killing last week that was egregious in the extreme. This while the DOJ is in town, incredible. So yes, the NYT is paying attention. I mean, ABQ has had more police killings in the last 5 years than NYC.

We had Occupy demos with Nat’l Lawyers Guild proctors. Training what we should or should not do. Pretty safe but rasty folks drove a lot of good folks away. We had permits and the local politicos were somewhat tolerant. I went to U New Mex in Albuquerque and later worked 2.5 years. Lot of dire poverty drugs and religious bias. The State politics was totally corrupt. Hard to understand murdering citizens without due process.

Part 1 of the debate (Europe’s economy): 1:47
Part 2 of the debate (Euroscepticism): 31:05
Part 3 of the debate (Foreign Policy): 1:00:31

It was a first for European politics tonight as the four EU presidential candidates took part in a live debate on euronews.Jean-Claude Juncker (European People’s Party), Martin Schulz (Party of European Socialists), Guy Verhofstadt (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party) and Ska Keller (European Green Party) – went head-to-head in Maastricht, ahead of European elections in May.

Yes, the DOJ report called out several shootings in particular and said the FBI was looking at criminal charges. The report on the use of tasers was really grim. Sadistic is a word that comes to mind. A pack mentality.

The consent decree is a negotiated agreement between the DOJ and the City that spells out what must be done to reign in the pattern of aggressive behaviors, bad training and enforcement among other things. The public wants accountability, of which there is none at this time. While the DA has reviewed all the shootings, not a single trial has resulted. But the City has had nearly $25Million in wrongful death and other settlements since 2010. So juries find the City guilty. But a criminal trial is a different animal, as we all know. So we will have to see what the FBI does.

The case last week was predatory to the max. A 19 y-o woman was gunned down after a 3 hour hunt/chase from 3:30 AM or so until 6:30 when they got her. She had only teenage types of charges/accusations, nothing felonious. They reported that she was driving a stolen truck, they tailed and lost her. Eventually they found the truck on the street and it had some kind of ID in it that linked it to her. They searched their data bases, I guess, and locked down a mobile home park where she had some connection. At 5 AM they drove through the place with loudspeakers telling all the residents to stay inside, that the police were coming in with dogs. Poor kid ran, eventually went over the wall and they gunned her down outside. said she had a gun. Why they did not just get a warrant and go to her job is a mystery. I guess at 5 AM there are a lot of cops with not a lot to do, so they created an action. They had the truck (which they never secured), they had ID, it was not a situation that had to end the way it did. At all. I really am furious about it.

Horrid. This has been hard to read about. One gets a sense of, “coming to a town near you”……. but really, what do people think is going on? How could the cops have gone so rogue? What are regular people saying, thinking, feeling, fearing? I just can’t imagine that my own town, which has dealt with gangs and such, acquiescing to such brutality.

I have been thinking of writing a diary about the latest of this again. People just want the killing to stop. And the DOJ process lasts for years, it will not happen soon. Like I said, another murder and so awful, while the DOJ has been here.

Obviously they knew she had no support family. They are avoiding due process. My uncle lived in Alb. in the “right’ side of town. Aunt was a Nurse at the Catholic Hospital 7th day Adventist working for nuns. Religious and racial divides. Wonder how many ex military are policing there now. Plus a lot of gun lovers all a bad cultural mix. Wonder where the social orgs are. So different from Santa Fe and many other smaller NM communities. So much unecesary misery.

Do you know of anyone who is interviewing folks or trying to figure out what is going on? It’s just so shockingly horrible, and I don’t know how it will stop until someone comes up with some sensible ….. well sensible something! Who is the police chief and what is he/she doing? Is no one holding these folks accountable? What is the profile of the various cops who do the shooting?? That would be my first question. Are the shooters/killers afraid, trained war vets, angry white guys, latinos who need to prove themselves, etc., etc.? Is there a pattern?

We do have drugs and poverty. The gang situation is really not bad, compared to how it was in the 80s and 90s. The public is demanding better screening for police coming in, of course we have some PTSD from wars and from the job itself, and the treatment is lacking. The governor has destroyed the marginal mental health care we had, and the jail is the only facility for people with mental health issues, which we also have a lot of. The police are not trained to deal with it, though new training has been announced. We need people who are specialists in it, IMO, not just police trained for a few hours in crisis management.

Of course there is the militarization of the police under HSD, and the general attitude that all of us are either terrorists or mass murderers. The training has been terrible, but the worst part is that there is no oversight or accountability.

It has been a culture of violence in the police department for a long time, generations. This is what the history and the report tell us.

The community is fed up. We have had big demonstrations, but people are also not going to continue to go to demonstrations, it seems. We are organizing a lot of actions, but it is wearing on everyone. No one feels like they want to call the police for help any more.

I believe starting on page 16 or 17 you can read about the use of tasers, to get a “flavor” for the police violence here. One of the reports that has come out in the last few days is about the former police chief who negotiated a no-bid contract with a company called Taser to get lapel cameras for the force, among other items. He then retired and went to work for them as a “consultant.” The City Council has just asked our awesome State Auditor to investigate that business. I guess there is another contract similar, with another company but I don’t know what that is about.

The problem with the cameras is that the police don’t use them, and in the recent shooting, the camera has no images because most likely it was not on. Many (80 at least) officers have been cited for not using the cameras, but there is no consequence for it. So no evidence. Just the word of the officer who shot her that she had a gun. Of course they found a gun. . .but no evidence that she pointed it, shot it or anything else. This officer had lied in a past shooting incident at which he was present but not the shooter, and we paid the family $900K to settle that case.

The young woman had been adopted at the age of 7 or so by a judge (now retired) and his wife in a nearby small town. She did come from a rough home prior to that, they adopted her and a younger sister, I think it is. So she had at some point a middle class upbringing and had developed some issues as a teen, maybe had drug problems now. It may have been something of a “tough love” situation, but the family has been very private about all of this. I know she had a lot of friends who cared about her, and she had been in some kind of teen support facilities as well as had spent a couple of months in the d-home a few years ago. Of course the news has broadcast the worst of her offenses (drinking in public, shoplifting (charges dropped) and a few things like that. But she was on her own, from the family. She did have community support and at least one mentor who has spoken out.

Those of us who enjoy white privilege here really would never know for the most part what goes on. The relatives of people who have been shot have been going to the City Council every meeting, with photos, telling their stories over and over. It was not until we had video of the homeless camper being shot that the whole town exploded over it.

Now it will not go away. A lot of people have been victims, a lot of families, a lot of loved ones. But they have been marginalized. At least now people are paying attention.

We have to hope, I guess. I keep feeling that without hope we have nothing. So I hope.

But of course there are those who support the police to the hilt, and I have friends who are in that camp. I have been the subject of some very nasty remarks and such on FB, and it is affecting some friendships, which is really hard for me. I am struggling with that daily. But I feel that I have to continue on this path. (un)Occupy friends are in total solidarity, and that is helpful. We do have a good community of activists.